Great article! For 15 years I have conducted interviews and been the victim of the interview process. Your article sounds familiar; I have been telling my wife

Great article! For 15 years I have conducted interviews and been the victim of the interview process. Your article sounds familiar; I have been telling my wife the same thing (out of frustration) for years. On several occasions I have made it through 3 or 4 levels of the interview process and then blocked in the final interview-step by an insecure or egotistical technical person. I would add the following (problem) points as well. * Some technical people like to hire clones of themselves, creating conflict and diversity issues. * Some technical people, conducting the interview, use the interview process to posture and show how smart they (the interviewer) are. * According to the BLS, the demand for programmers is decreasing while demand for analysts is increasing. Programming has changed a lot with tools like intellisense and included libraries. * If you can’t answer the question, "why did you ask that question?", you should not ask the question. Each interview question should have a specific targeted purpose. I hope my additions help. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-pritchard/3/93b/4ba http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-pritchard/3/93b/4ba